A big welcome to our 465 new subscribers this week! Hello! Hola! Moshi moshi! Shopifreaks is experiencing tremendous growth lately, and I owe it all to you, my readers. Thank you for continuing to share my newsletter with your colleagues each week and also for your...
#132 – Shopify Summer ’23 Editions Mega Recap, GA4 Updates, & Virtual Room Stylers
A big welcome to our 315 new readers this week! Shopifreaks is growing, growing, growing, and the timing is perfect because I'm currently in the process of onboarding new sponsors. 😂 As you might recall, my one year exclusive sponsorship with BigCommerce came to...
#131 – Temu vs Shein, AI Site Generators, & FedNow
I'll share something personal with you before we begin this week's edition... I'm obsessed with creating a great newsletter! Each week, as I begin to look back at all the e-commerce news I've compiled during the previous seven days, I experience the same fear -- that...
#130 – Shopify’s AI Assistant, T-Commerce, & Puff Daddy
How much does it cost your company for you to read this newsletter each week? Would you say that the value you gain from keeping up with the latest e-commerce news outweighs the cost? Should we even be looking at the cost of your time through such a micro-lens? This...
#129 – Threads, Lawsuits, and Acquisition Predictions
Historically 4th of July week has been a slow time for e-commerce news because everyone goes on vacation, so I thought I was going to have a shorter newsletter for you this week. But nope! Despite the holiday, I've still got a jam packed edition for you...
#128 – Shopping GPT, Overstock & Beyond, and TrueView scandals
1) A big welcome to our 515 new subscribers! A new reader introduced herself a few days ago and told me that she discovered our newsletter from a recommendation via a Slack Channel for women in e-commerce, which made my day. Since launching Shopifreaks in Jan 2021,...
#127 – TikTok’s new Trendy Beat & Shop Pay Everywhere
I have a few changes to share with you before we get started today: I'm sunsetting the Shopifreaks Reward Program on July 31st. Please redeem any unclaimed rewards by then, which you can view here.Thank you to all the great e-commerce companies who participated...
#126 – Amazon & USA vs China
Today I've got for you one of the best editions that I've published in a while. Some weeks there are simply more exciting news stories than others! And this is one of those weeks. In today's edition I share stories about Amazon getting hit from China with a page from...
#125 – Who’s right? Amazon or Wall Street?
It was brought to my attention that last week's 124th Edition didn't make it to as many Inboxes as usual. Potentially due to the title of the edition, it landed in more Promotions tabs than usual. If you missed that edition, you can check out the web archive here. To...
#124 – Reddit is outraged & Shopify offers 1% cashback
I've got a jampacked edition for you today. Before we get started though, let me share with you a few changes around here at Shopifreaks. 1) My one year agreement with BigCommerce to be the exclusive sponsor of Shopifreaks has ended. Thank you to the team at...